Event

UPSTREAM COLOR

Special Preview! Monday, April 8 at 7:30 pm In Person: Filmmaker Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth first burst into our consciousness in 2004 with his mind-bending Primer, an impossibly twisty tale about aspiring entrepreneurs who build a time machine in their garage and soon find themselves lost in a seemingly endless series of reversals and betrayals. For those willing to enter Carruth's cinematic labyrinth, the film could be endlessly seductive. Upstream Color, Carruth's new rabbit hole of a movie, will undoubtedly inspire similarly obsessively viewing. Without explanation or preparation, Carruth plunges us into the experience of two people. The woman works at a movie special effects house. The man is a middle manager. Each is abducted by a strange cult, and taken over in both mind and body. Everything is stripped away from them, their money, their beliefs, their confidence, even the certainty of their memories. They are forced into awareness that they are simply pieces of a larger process. Unmoored from all that they took for granted, they must find their way in a new and suddenly alien world with nothing to hold on to except each other. However, a description of plot can just barely begin to properly evoke the phantasmagorical experience of watching
Carruth's mesmerizing film. Carruth throws us, like his protagonists, without warning into a universe that is both familiar and
utterly mysterious